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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. im, itult'o Application iled September 11, 1916. SerialNo. 119,4@0.

To all 'whom t may concern:

` Be it known that I, ADDIE I. ZrRnLn, a

citizen of the United States, residing at North Yakima, in the county ofYakima and State of Washington, have .invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Wire Clothes-Pins; and I do declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to improvements in wire clothes pins.

Theobject of the invention is to provide a simple and effective deviceof this character provided with inwardly spring pressed clamping jawsadapted to embrace a clothes line and clamp the article to be suspendedtherefrom.

: `Another Objectis to provide a device of this character composed of asingle piece of wire in which the clamping aws are so constructed as topresent comparatively wide gripping faces.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, Vwhich will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention here disclosed may be made within the scopeof what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l comprises a front elevation ofthis clothes pin with the clamping jaws in closed position;

Fig. 2 is a similar View with the. jaws in open position; and

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line 3- 3 of Fig. 1.

The clothes pin l constituting this invention is formed from a singlepiece of spring wire of the required size bent midway itsI length into acoil to form a spring head 2, any desired number of coils being used togive the desired spring action to the clamping jaws. lThe two parts ofthe wire are then extended laterally in the same direction the pin beingcompressed by easy and natural movement.

At the outer ends' of the bars 3, the wire members are bent inward asshown at 4 and cross each other at 5. In order to guide the Same andhold them against springing j apart, one of the portions 4 is bent toform an eye 6 in which the other is free to slide. The wire is thenextended and doubled upon itself three times to form cooperatingclamping jaws 7 of four wires each, which are in contact with each otherto form substantially solid, comparatively wide, flat clamping jaws,.theterminals of the wire being secured by bendmg them around the inner endsof the jaws as at 8, each jaw comprising two outer side members with twoinner members arranged between them, one of said outer members beingoffset laterally at lts inner end to receive the connected inner ends ofthe inner members.

These jaws 7 present comparatively wide clamping faces and arecorrugated trans- In the use of these improved pins, the

jaws 7 are opened by pressing the hand bars 3 toward each other as shownin Fig. 2 and `when so pressed, the jaws will be forced apart a distancesucient to receive the article t'o be clamped and the line from whichthey are to be suspended, the article being held between the opposed'neeting faces of the corrugations of the two jaws and their fiat,broad, substantially solid gripping faces engage the article over anextended area and prevent holes being pinched in the fabric. When thehand bars 3 are released, the jaws will spring into closed position,owing to the action of the coiled spring forming the head 2.

I claim A A clothes pin composed of a single piece of spring wire andincluding grippmg jaws formed by extending the ends of the wireslongitudinally in parallel relation and each folded inwardly upon itselfand then again outwardly and then inwardly to form outer parallel,laterally spaced side members with inner members arranged between them,the members being in contact and in transverse alinement to form atcomparatively wide substantially solid opposed clamping jaws, one of theouter members of each jaw being offset laterally vat its inner end toreceive the connected inner ends of the inner members, the terminals ofthe wire being at the ends of the other outer members of the jaws andbent around the inner lends of the offset outer jaw members, the jawshaving transverse longitudinally spaced corrugations,

' the corrugations of one jaw being arranged opposite those of the otherand the free ends of the jaws flared.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing

